Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.